ComsFacultyBooks Archives | School of Journalism and Communication

May 2, 2024

COMS Prof. Siobhan Angus on “Camera Geologica” and the overlap between education, curation, and activism

Dr. Siobhan Angus (Assistant Professor - Communication & Media Studies) discusses her book Camera Geologica, the joys of working at the intersection of different disciplines, and the links between her... More

February 28, 2024

Prof. Armond Towns reflects on teaching at the intersection of Black Studies & Media Philosophy

"Even as they're butting heads, they're constantly overlapping": Two years after releasing his first book, Dr. Armond R. Towns (Associate Professor - Communication & Media Studies) reflects on teaching at... More

November 27, 2023

Irena Knezevic | Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, and Movement

What is food? A thing we eat, a creator of cultures, an all-encompassing system? An object, a process, a way of understanding ourselves? A focus of transdisciplinary practice and study?... More

March 1, 2022

Armond Towns | On Black Media Philosophy

Cover of Who is the human in media philosophy? Although media philosophers have argued since the twentieth century that media are fundamental to being human, this question has not been... More

August 27, 2021

Benjamin Woo | The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics

The Comics World is the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. Designed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about theory... More

April 13, 2021

Ross Eaman | Historical Dictionary of Journalism

This book covers the history of journalism as an institutionalized form of discourse from the acta diurna in ancient Rome to the news aggregators of the 21st century. It traces... More

August 26, 2019

Sheryl N. Hamilton and Sandra Robinson | Communication, Law and Media in Canada, 2nd Edition

This second edition of Law’s Expression provides a timely analysis of the intersection of law, communication, and media in contemporary Canadian society. In an era where freedom of expression and... More

August 6, 2019

Susana Vargas Cervantes | The Little Old Lady Killer

For three years, amid widespread public outrage, police in Mexico City struggled to uncover the identity of the killer responsible for the ghastly deaths of forty elderly women, many of... More

September 13, 2018

Karim Karim | Diaspora and Media in Europe: Migration, Identity and Integration

This book examines how African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American diasporas use media to communicate among themselves and to integrate into European countries. Whereas migrant communities continue employing print... More

March 13, 2018

Benjamin Woo | Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture

Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today’s pop-culture landscape, and the people we used to deride as “nerds” or “geeks” have ridden their... More

September 13, 2017

Irena Knezevic | Nourishing Communities: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways

This edited volume builds on existing alternative food initiatives and food movements research to explore how a systems approach can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration. Chapters describe... More

September 13, 2017

Miranda Brady | We Interrupt this Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture

We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics in the realms of art, film, television, and journalism to rewrite Canada’s national narratives from... More